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The Ursa Major and Minor are represented as a big bear and a small bear.
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Some time after Callisto had been
forced out of the company of Diana, she gave birth to a
boy child named Arcas. Jupiter's wife Juno was mad and
changed Callisto into a bear.
Callisto was afraid and she ran away into the woods. One day
many years later, when Arcas was a young man, he decided
to go hunting, and without knowing it, went into the very woods where
his mother Callisto lived. Callisto saw her son and, forgetting
that she was a bear, rushed toward him to give him a hug.
In fear of his life, Arcas lifted his bow and shot at the charging
bear, who was his mother. At the last moment,
just before the arrow struck, Jupiter tossed Callisto and her son
Arcas into the heavens as the star formations Ursa Major and Ursa
Minor, the big and little bears. We now know these star formations
the Big Dipper
and the Little Dipper.

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